Coat hanger



' sept. 7,1926. 1,599,127 n s. R. FRY

COAT HANGER Filed Feb. 16, -1925 A TTORNE Y.

Patented Sept. f7, 1926.

v'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL R. PRY, OE WYOMISSING, PENNSYLVANIA. yAssrGNOR rro THE NARROW EAB- Rrc co., OP WEST READING, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OE PENNSYLVANIA.

coA'r HANGER.

Application fued February The object of my invention is to provide an improved fabric-covered coat-hanger in which the essential bar element Will be tightly andsecurely enclosed in an ornamental and useful fabric covering applied at small cost; and it is fully set forth in connection with the accompanying drawings and clearly defined in the claim.

Fig. 1 shows an ordinary coa-t hanger bar fabri`c-covered in accordance With my invention; part of the covering being broken away to show the uncoveredy bar with its end portion shown in longitudinal section.

Fig. 2 shows the tubularly braided covering fabric loosely strung upon the hanger bar and secured to one end thereof, preliminary to stretching the same longitudinally as indicated by the dotted lines.

Fig. 3 shows one end of the hanger bar in enlarged longitudinal section and With the projected end of the fabric-covering inturned and secured in the recessed end of the bar; an end viewrof the latter beingV shown in Fig. 4:. l

The hanger bar 5 is indicated in wellknown simple form, as a. mere curved strip of vvood to Which a suspending hook 6 is secured -midvvay of its length; said hook being secured thereto after the Vfabriccovering has been applied to the bar as hereinafter set fort-h. y To provide for securing said covering to the bar, each end of! the latter is shown as provided With a central longitudinal recess 7 in Which the inturned projecting end ofthe fabric is suitably held. My invention provides vfor -employing a piece of tubularly braided fabric `10 as a covering material; this being made of less length than is adapted to normally cover the hanger bar, but With a cross-sectional periphery sufficiently greater Ythan that of the bar to provide, first, for its being easily strung upon the bar; and second, for its being" longitudinally stretchable, as its braided structure readily permits, so as to l provide inturnable extending material 10a,

10a, beyond the opposite ends of the bar when the stretching action has contracted the tubular form ofthe braided fabric So as 16, `1925. seriai No. 9,484.

to cause it to closely hug the enclosed bar.

Thus, as indicated in Fig. 2, the loosely thereafter stretched horizontally, as indi-V cated by the dotted lines l0", until the Whole length of the bar is tightly hugged thereby and its free end l0a extends beyond the opposite end of the bar so as to enable its being similarly inturned and secured in the second end recess-7. As lshown the tucked-in end fabric is very firmly secured by a clamping plug l5 employed with or Without a suitable cement7 but obviously either of such secur ing means, or other as preferred, may be employed for locking the inturned material so as to practically prevent loosening of the longitudinally stretched fabric.

The vtubular braided fabric may be cheaply produced in continuous length of determined greater normal interior periphery .than that of the hanger bar to be covered, and be readily cut to the correspondingly reduced lengths required for providing inturning extensions 10a, 10a, of

proper length when the body of thebraid is made to tightly hug the bar; so thatthe mere securing of these extending ends of the horizontally stretched and diam'etrally contracted tubular fabric substantially as set forth, will insure the securingof a very tightly and satisfactorily covered bar With great economy of production.

that IV claim is:

The method of covering a coat-hanger bar or the like which consists, first in loosely Stringing thereon a tubularly-braided fabric having a normally greater periphery than the bar, second iny longitudinally stretching said fabric to tightly close the same upon the bar and provide extending end portions, and third in inturning said extending end portions and securing the same to the ends of the bar.

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SAMUEL FRY. 

